May 10, 2012

The windfall from Facebook’s public offering may prompt some employees to leave, in what could be one of company’s lasting legacies — a new generation of tech tycoons looking to create or invest in, well, the next Facebook.

The medical debt-collection company, the subjection of an investigation by the Minnesota attorney general into its practices, announced higher quarterly earnings on Wednesday.

In expressing his support for same-sex marriage, which remains a controversial issue, President Obama has clearly come to recognize that the forces of history appear to be changing.

The rules are designed to tackle origination fees, which vary widely depending on the amount of a loan.

In confronting Jewish laws that forbid airing allegations against fellow Jews or turning them in to the police, families of ultra-Orthodox victims who have been molested face intimidation by their communities.

China’s incredible economic growth spurt shows signs of slowing, as April imports fell to near zero and exports were half of what was expected for the month.

Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins in this comedy from Tim Burton (their eighth movie together), based on the soap opera from the 1960s and ’70s.

Audra McDonald shocked the theater world when she went to Los Angeles (and television) five years ago. Renewed and invigorated by a new family life, she’s in a familiar place now: nominated for a Tony.

A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.

Even as it emerged that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had apologized to President Obama for hastening his backing of gay marriage, Mr. Obama’s campaign sought to capitalize on it.

Megan Hilty stars in the red-blooded Encores! concert staging of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”

With 50,000 new H.I.V. cases each year in the United States, government advisers said Truvada, an antiviral medicine, should be approved for use in healthy people at high risk of infection.